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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Note
- Biography
- The Shakespeare legend
- Shakespeare's works
- Literary features and terms
- Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context
- Theatrical context to 1660
- Historical, social, and cultural context
- Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts
- The editing of Shakespeare since 1700
- Editions and editors in English
- Theatrical history of the plays
- Critical history of the works
- Periodicals
- Societies and clubs
- Shakespeare's literary influence
- Shakespeare around the globe
- List of plays in alphabetical order
- The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
- The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology, 1564–1999
- Further reading
fools.
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
- Author(s):
- Martin WigginsMartin Wiggins
In Shakespeare's time, fools or jesters were retained as providers of entertainment to both the royal court and well-to-do households ...
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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Note
- Biography
- The Shakespeare legend
- Shakespeare's works
- Literary features and terms
- Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context
- Theatrical context to 1660
- Historical, social, and cultural context
- Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts
- The editing of Shakespeare since 1700
- Editions and editors in English
- Theatrical history of the plays
- Critical history of the works
- Periodicals
- Societies and clubs
- Shakespeare's literary influence
- Shakespeare around the globe
- List of plays in alphabetical order
- The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
- The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology, 1564–1999
- Further reading